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A New Way to Manage Chronic Illness

9/26/2013 10:30PM

Doctors are helping chronically ill people like Dale Johnson manage their health better under an experimental initiative called an Accountable Care Organization, aimed at cutting costs and improving care.

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... I ... started getting sick ... I was ... very great teacher ... two I had to stop working ... I was in excruciating pain tonight ... I couldn't hold down food and ... I couldn't greedy I was in the hospital for ... Christmas and New EA is I was always say ... always say that no one can tell me ... what was wrong with me ... Dale Jones who suffers from a long list of ailments ... everything from congestive heart failure type two diabetes ... in two thousand twelve shoes cost was five times and Wednesday are twelve times ... what you do work that a small subset of patients ... than just like the most awesome pool bar of the most at risk ... most volatile ... the system is still in the box Doctor Jeffrey Farber is a position at Mount Sinai Medical Center in York City ... where Ms Johnson is a patient ... if you really need to focus on the distributor ... I'm re designed it ... enough about overspending and that's what the ACO ... model ... brings the sport ... Mount Sinai is running an experimental health care program called and ACEO which stands for accountable care organizations ... the CEOs are designed to move away from the current model that says you go to the doctor wants you're sick ... and instead ... focuses on preventive care ... for someone like Bill Johnson this mean she is a team of specialists from social workers and doctors ... the Pollard case closely ... and giver guidance on living healthier ... all ... next time ... to get my ... eye ... diabetes under control moves weighed how specifically a hit ... by shopping with his history ... really ... looks out ... of a new publisher happening in the first place so well we heard that patients call as soon as that of just kind and again and I'm really China talked of our lifestyle I think before at America's UN was about to play ... and now she knows I'm here Chauhan means you need something ... she knows will see her new early ... on acting just knowing that time ... it will always be there really health centers ... stay away from the Mansion team ... for the Dow Jones ... all of the cases ... or the Sosa with this ... if it wasn't for them ... I ... I don't know where we are ... probably be Dave and mm mm ... a tall tree CEOs is that they will cut costs by preventing health crises ... when Bill Johnson's case the CEO's been affected Vinci doesn't Welford human cost Medicare for forty three thousand dollars ... as of July two thousand thirteen the costs are one tenth of that ... if not sign a CCO continues to reduce its patients cost Medicare bill split the savings fifty fifty ... but that's a big it ... so far only thirteen of the nation's thirty two pioneering the CEOs have reduced costs enough to achieve savings ... and setting of any SEO is expensive ... remember that we all want to there's ... no money ... you don't hear more ... all these things that the higher the board didn't ... go out of the practices and build schools in our system ... the bad investment ... the wheel pays off ... but it's a gamble ... ACO model ... is the way to start to change culture ... and to share ... from a failing system ... the country we were spending more than any other country on a platter ... of health ... artful ... Etsy artisan or slow spending that were really getting value here ... the fall ... pretty bad job ... I'm so does that does raise the ... child but how ... what was wrong with me ... I have come on Mon way ... I know way ... I ...